Berel Lang

Berel Lang (November 13, 1933 – September 8, 2025) was an American professor of philosophy and author. His research interests included political philosophy, ethics, aesthetics, literary theory. A considerable amount of his work was devoted to The Holocaust. ); he took additional studies at Indiana University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Books 1975: Art and Inquiry 1983: Philosophy and the Art of Writing 1983: Faces and Other Ironies of Writing and Reading 1990: Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide 1990: The Anatomy of Philosophical Style: Literary Philosophy and the Philosophy of Literature 1991: Writing and the Moral Self 1995: Mind's Bodies: Thought in the Act 1996: Heidegger's Silence 1999: The Future of the Holocaust: Between History and Memory 2000: Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics 2005: Post-Holocaust: Interpretation, Misinterpretation, and the Claims of History, essays 2012: Philosophical Witnessing: The Holocaust as Presence 2013: Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life 2017: Genocide: The Act as Idea